Re: converting cap_set_pg() to for_each_task_pid()

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:57:42PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I have a pending patch that converts cap_set_pg() to the
>> for_each_task_pid() API. Could you review this, and if it
>> pass, include it in your tree?

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:05:51PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> This is functionally the same, right?
> And if so, why do the change, is this now faster somehow?

It is functionally equivalent. The motivation is not so much
performance as API conversion. I am personally taking it upon
myself to deprecate for_each_process() and do_each_thread() and
update the mergeably correctible callers. The deprecation motives
are both efficiency and correctness related.

It should improve performance in whatever sense performance is
interesting from the point of view of this function; however,
it is not motivated by that fact (and performance is not of interest
with respect to most security functions). It is API conversion.


Thanks,
Bill